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[ad_1] Arsenal are into the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2010 after beating Porto 4-2 on penalties at the Emirates. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, the Premier League leaders levelled the contest on aggregate through Leandro Trossard’s first-half strike but neither side could find an overall winner in the 90 minutes … Read more
[ad_1] England superstar James Anderson has revealed he was responsible for first sledging India batter Shubman Gill in the fifth Test that led to a heated flashpoint between Gill and England’s Jonny Bairstow. Gill scored a century in the series-concluding clash in Dharamsala while trading barbs with veteran paceman Anderson. When Bairstow arrived at the … Read more
[ad_1] On July 27, 2018, a gifted young striker made her debut for the Matildas, replacing Sam Kerr in the fourth minute of stoppage time for the briefest of cameo appearances. Mary Fowler, just 15 years old, had not even made a professional league appearance at that point. Yet she was already being discussed in … Read more
[ad_1] Australia superstar Ellyse Perry made history overnight, taking the first-ever six-wicket haul in the Women’s Premier League in India. The 33-year-old took 6-15 – the competition’s best-ever figures and her personal best figures in T20 cricket – as her Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Mumbai Indians. Mumbai were on 65-1 before Perry ran riot with … Read more
[ad_1] Star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant is fit to play in the Indian Premier League starting this month after being seriously hurt in a car crash in 2022, the cricket board said Tuesday. Pant is set to return to the Delhi Capitals after missing last season and could play for India at the World Cup in … Read more
[ad_1] Qualifying lucky loser Luca Nardi scored the biggest win of his young career on Monday, stunning world number one Novak Djokovic 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 at the ATP-WTA Indian Wells Masters. The world number 123 from Italy ended the 11-match win streak of the veteran Serb at Masters events, with Nardi bettering the childhood tennis … Read more
[ad_1] Australia was 5-80 when Alex Carey walked out to bat at Hagley Oval on Monday morning, needing a further 199 runs to avoid a historic loss to New Zealand. Carey, Australia’s last recognised batter, had only passed fifty twice in his previous 18 Test innings, registering prior scores of 10, 3 and 14 against … Read more
[ad_1] Get excited. That’s the message from Ange Postecoglou to Tottenham fans after his team battered Aston Villa 4-0, cutting the gap to their top-four rivals to just two points. “Get excited, why not?” Postecoglou told Sky Sports after the game. “The supporters, if they don’t get excited by a performance and result like that, … Read more
[ad_1] Chelsea eased the scrutiny on manager Mauricio Pochettino as a 3-2 win over Newcastle on Monday propelled the Blues back into contention for European football next season. Nicolas Jackson, Cole Palmer and Mykhailo Mudryk were on target for the home side at Stamford Bridge, with Palmer putting in another stunning man of the match … Read more
[ad_1] When Wales and British Lions rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit arrived in Florida to begin his bid to make it into the NFL he was quickly given proof that his dream could be realised. As soon as Rees-Zammit and the other class of 2024 at the NFL’s International Player Pathway (IPP) program had checked in … Read more